the heart of peacemaking - sydney national training

The Heart of Peacemaking

An improved ability to be a peacemaker and respond well to the challenge of conflict requires a deeper understanding of ourselves, our relationship with God and the deeper things which drive our responses to challenging situations.

Please note: this course requires having done the traditional Personal Peacemaking or the new Everyday Peacemaking course.

In this training you will:

reflect upon and practise foundational principles and skills learned in Everyday Peacemaking.

gain a deeper understanding of the role of the human heart in more serious conflicts

discover a powerful tool to understand the drivers of your and others’ behaviours

become better equipped to respond well to challenging people and situations

engage further with principles of confession and forgiveness

more seriously explore the concept of a culture of peace and how you can support it in your community/spheres of influence

This training is suitable for all Christians wanting to be more deeply equipped to respond in God-pleasing ways to be a peacemaker, reconcile relationships and address conflict in their own lives.

Please note our cancellation policy:

Up to one month before the course – No charge.

From 1 month to 1 week before the 1st day of training – 50% of the fee will be refunded.

Within one week before the course – no refund will be given*.

* For serious illness or emergency, a fee credit will be supplied to be used within 1 year. Registrants are responsible for registering for future training with credit supplied.

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Trainers

Bruce Burgess

Bruce Burgess is the National Director of PeaceWise and is Australia’s first Certified Christian ConciliatorTM. He holds degrees in Arts, Law, Christian Studies and Theology and is an international conference speaker. Bruce’s peacemaking work has led him to become involved in teaching and working with schools, workplace disputes, church and para-church based conflict, and victim-offender cases. Bruce has a passion for seeing both adults and kids’ lives transformed by the power of the gospel of peace, for building cultures of peace and for seeing God break through to repair, restore and sustain healthy relationships. Bruce is married to Helen and they have two high school aged kids. Bruce constantly thanks God for being the amazing God of peace that he is, who has provided so much help, wisdom and grace for living life - which is especially needed in the cauldron of teenage parenting!

Wendy Konemann

Wendy Konemann is a PeaceWise Ambassador and is also a practising Christian counsellor specialising in marriage counselling, conflict coaching and mediations. Wendy undertook the PeaceWise training in 2011 and is now a Certified Christian Conciliator TM with Peacemaker Ministries. Wendy has been involved in mediating church, organisational and marriage conflicts both in Australia and in the United States and has provided biblical peacemaking training to churches and Christian schools around Australia. She has been a speaker and trainer at events in Australia, the United States, Jordan, and The Netherlands.

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